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internationally-renowned birth cohort studies: the National Child Development Study
(1958), the 1970 British Cohort Study and the Millennium Cohort Study (2000). CLS
conducts research using the birth cohort study data, with a special interest in family
life and parenting, family economics, youth life course transitions and basic skills.
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